Rec Leauge Hockey

This past Sunday, I had a chance to shoot my brother's hockey game.  He plays for Dupont Blue with Performax Hockey in Amherst, NY.  They lost to the Fighting Hell Fish 5 to 3 in a close game.

This was my first real attempt at sports photography.  The arena posed some challenges in getting good exposure.  Because of the lighting, I was forced to use a high iso and limited to a shutter speed of 1/250 sec at the fastest.  This resulted pictures that were not as sharp as I would have liked and that had a high amount of noise.  In hind sight, I could have opened up the aperture a little more and got a faster shutter speed.  I was able to still get some good shots.  From the approximately 200 shots I took, 25 made it out of lightroom as keepers.  Here are some of the good shots:

The rest of the shots can be viewed here:
http://s346.photobucket.com/albums/p437/evelbug/Dupont%20Hockey%2012-5-2010/